James Paton (sport shooter) explained

James Paton (born 24 May 1957 in Newcastle^[1]) is a sport shooter from Canada.

At the 1997 Commonwealth Shooting Championships in Kuala Lumpur he won the fullbore rifle event.^[2]

The following year at the 1998 Commonwealth Games (also in Kuala Lumpur) he won the gold medal in the fullbore rifle open individual event and silver in the pairs event (with Alain Marion).^[3]

At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, he won silver medals in the fullbore rifle individual and pairs events (this time with Desmond Vamplew).^[4]

In 2005, he won the Queen's Prize at the NRA Imperial Meeting at Bisley, matching the record score of 300.40v.^[5]

Notes and References

1. http://results.glasgow2014.com/athlete/shooting/1033355/jim_paton.html Glasgow 2014 profile
2. News: Canadian shooter wins gold . . . 28 November 1997 . Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia . 25 . en . James Paton of Canada won the gold medal in the men's full-bore rifle event in the Commonwealth Shooting Federation Championship..
3. News: 21 September 1998. Commonwealth Games Medal Winners. https://web.archive.org/web/19981203053509/http://www.canoe.com/SlamCommonwealth/commonwealth_medals.html. dead. December 3, 1998. Canoe.ca. Canoe.ca. 4 December 2015.
4. News: Hossain . Asif . 26 July 2014 . Commonwealth Games: Bezzoubenko bags golden hat-trick . 27 July 2014 . Olympic.ca.
5. Web site: NRA 136th Imperial Meeting H.M. Queen's Prize, Stage III . nra.org.uk . . 2 November 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210301043533/https://nra.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/historical/imperial/2005/101.pdf . 1 March 2021 . en . PDF . live.